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intensified. the army shelling its own people as the arab world steps in to try to end the slaughter of civilians. and an all-out brawl at the mall. police with guns drawn, shoppers scrambling for exits. chaos after christmas on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. it's tuesday, december 27th. this is "american morning." i'm alina cho along with ali velshi. good morning. >> good morning to you. >> we're so glad you're with us today. >> there's a lot going on. let's get right to it. starting in iowa. it's the place to be this morning. five t...

endorsement from the state's gop king maker. they fought wars over their borders. now a strange bit by pakistan's turning, once again fwloob a big tourist attraction. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the situation room. >> the first vote in 2012 presidential campaign is only eight days way. we're talking about the republican caucuses in iowa. and the latest poll there shows what amounts to be a dead heat. ron paul is on the rise. he's the current favorite of likely republican caucus goers. the arg poll shows him with 21%. mitt romney is next at 20%. and newt gingrich who's been slipping...

The capacity that gadhafi was throwing, particularly in misrata, you saw the targeting of military capacity. we just don't know enough yet, whether nato really did target him, but it seems as if leadership is part of the equation that nato is going after. >> here's something that's concerning, the question about what does gadhafi do now? does he have the capacity to put on terrorism acts around the world like pan am 103, could they do that from the position? >> i think he's under appreciate. he's already said to the degree that they came in, he would be creating flames through the gulf and tha...

Also by taking out his defenses we have weakened him so he will not be able to come back and do the things that he has done not only to his own people but the terrorism acts that he's done in the past. >> are you not concerned, congressman, about the dissolution of the government in yemen and who could come to power there? shouldn't we be equally concerned, if not more so, about what's happening in yemen than what's happening in libya? >> yemen is a lot different. yemen is a country that is more wide open, it has a very weak government. there is a lot of different opposition groups there. ther...

Don't you have any fear about having these former detainees live in your community? >> well, there's definitely concerns and certainly, they would have to be appropriately cleared. and we'd also have to trust our judicial system if a federal judge says that we don't have a case, that these people have never been trained as terrorists, that there's been no evidence that they have any terrorist backgrounds, then we need to be able to trust our democratic process and our judges. to -- >> maybe i'm not as all trusting as you are and when i look at the recidivism rate of detainees from gitmo that h...